The best London Gatwick Airport hotels

An expert guide to the top hotels near London's Gatwick Airport, including the best for airport parking, transfers, early and late check-ins and early breakfasts, near Gatwick's North and South terminals.

This spacious guesthouse close to Gatwick airport offers holiday parking and good road and rail links. Guests are assured a friendly, professional welcome and international visitors can relax in the knowledge that owner Sue has all bases covered in terms of airport transportation and local tips. The property is a large Edwardian property set on a quiet residential street. Rooms and public areas are enhanced by original and reproduction Art Deco furniture. Tea and homemade cake is offered on arrival.
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Connected to Gatwick Airport’s North terminal, the hotel offers easy access to flights from both North and South terminals.
Interiors offer refined comfort for guests on the move. Lacking in personal touches, as expected, the neutral primary colour-scheme runs throughout the hotel. The expansive lobby is a pleasure on arrival, creating an open, airy atmosphere. Vertigo-sufferers may prefer to take the stairs as the lifts scale both sides of the lobby with a fear-inducing viewing window. Plain in décor but unquestionably comfortable, the Gatwick MyBed offered in 492 rooms seems to make all the difference.
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A no-frills, low-cost hotel in Gatwick airport’s South Terminal. Rooms are modern and tech-advanced, with dangerously comfortable beds and an intuitive use of limited space. The elimination of any unnecessary space is in fitting with the Japanese capsule-hotel concept upon which the BLOC hotels are based. Service is quick and as self-sufficient as possible, making this a convenient pitstop for those rushing off to early-morning flights. For anyone flying into or out of Gatwick Airport’s South Terminal, you couldn’t be closer.
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There are no outside windows in the cabins, but as the hotel is somewhere beneath Costa Coffee in the Arrivals Hall of South Terminal, the view wouldn’t be that hot anyway. A single cabin (there are twins and doubles, ‘standards’ and ‘premiums’) looks like a couchette in a train with an upper bunk, at the end of which is a flat screen TV with full entertainment system, plus a pull-out desk (free WiFi) and a minute bathroom separated by a glass screen with monsoon shower, basin and loo. If you are feeling too dozy to cope with the automatic check-in, help is on hand.
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With 701 rooms, this is the UK's largest Premier Inn, and a good budget option for staying at Gatwick. Inside the public areas are pretty tasteful for a budget hotel. There's a large and comfy bar/lounge with beige sofas and leather pouffes, and a vast dining area sensibly split in to smaller spaces by recesses holding spotlit vases. Bedrooms look quite appealing too, as long as you like the colour purple. Check in is done via idiot-proof self-service machines, but there are also plenty of staff members on hand to help if needed. The buffet breakfast is a fine spread for a budget chain hotel.
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A convenient bolthole right next to the terminals, the Hampton by Hilton hotel at Gatwick Airport offers the sort of reliability and predictability that is more than welcome for guests hunkering down before catching early flights. Think not of grim airport hotels of old: Hampton by Hilton's public areas are clean and modern (some verging on clinical, perhaps) featuring slim pale wood chairs, origami-style light shades and a slick white-bar with high stools in the bar/reception area. A continental buffet breakfast is served from 5am.
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